College Cooking : Fettucine Carbonara

If you are some kind of culinary expert or own a michelin star restaurant or really into quality food PLEASE LOOK AWAY NOW!! (this recipe will use fake cheese and fake sausages).

am I safe now? okay.

If you are a college student in Indonesia, it's a big chance you live in a small room with no personal kitchen. Me myself, in my "kost" (I don't know what it is in english, it's some kind of a lower grade of an apartment, lol) has a shared kitchen but I don't like sharing if it comes to food. But I do have my mighty rice cooker.

I named him albert

 The rice cooker is surprisingly capable of everything! You just have to think it's like a pan on an ordinary stove, but you cant control the fire that easily though. I've cooked eggs, congee, eggplants, oatmeal and other with this baby. But here I'm going to share to you how to make Fettucine Carbonara. You can use macaroni, spaghetti any kinds of pasta, as long as it's cheap because don't forget you are a college student after all. Don't try to be fancy. You are poor. *cries*

Okay here's the ingredients.

the green stuff at the top right is not weed I swear

The main ingredients are a box of fettucine, a box of milk, one block of cheese (shredded), salt & pepper. You can add anything, here I'm adding sausages and oregano (that I stole when I went back home).

1. Boil the pasta according to the box, then drain it, set aside.

I broke the fettucine in half so it fits

2.  Melt some butter or margarine (in Indonesia margarine is more common), and in this step you can add some chopped onion if you have any. Then add the milk, and shredded cheese. Add some salt and pepper, I added oregano too but that's optional. Then heat till the cheese melts.



3. Lastly, put the fettucine in the rice cooker, add a little amount  then stir, repeat until all of the fettucine is combined with the sauce.



4. You can add sausages if you have some.





aaand it's done! The whole thing cost me about IDR 30k and that's about 3 dollars. And because I used a whole box of fettucine it can last for breakfast, lunch and dinner, a dollar a meal. Super cheap right? And easy to cook.

(not-so) DIY : Cross Stitch Pattern

Do you ever want to make someone a portrait of their face or any picture that they like on cross stitch but don't have time or don't know how to make the pattern or don't even bother to know how to make the pattern or don't wanna pay someone to make the pattern for you because you don't have money?
Well that's totally me!

I've googled some tutorials on making your own pattern but all of them looks like super time consuming. From printing the papers yourself, edit it on Photoshop, make the lines and symbols yourself, bla bla bla.... Ain't nobody got time for that!

So I wondered to myself, it's 2017, surely somebody has made some kinda app that magically turns any picture to a pattern in a matter of seconds right? And then I googled : Cross stitching pattern converter and there were a few! I tried some of them but the best one is this website myphotostitch.com and it's totally free!

Here's how to use it,

1. Choose a photo/picture that you want. Here I choose a picture of Agung Hapsah or eevvnx, a rising youtuber from Indonesia. I'm planning to make a fan art for him.

I edited this in photoshop

Open the website, then insert the picture here.




2. After you upload the picture, choose the aida cloth count , the number of thread colors that you want, the pattern style, and the allowed thread colors that you want.


3. After you're done choosing, select make pattern.


4. Then voila! After a moment the pattern is done, you just have to click "download your cross stitch Pattern",



after that the the PDF file of the pattern will show up! The appearance is going to be like this.



Lastly, you just have to stitch away! Easy right?

Craft Crawl : Toko Victory Bandung

This place is relatively new, it opens at the end of 2016. If you live in Bandung you may know the famous "Toko Petra" that mysteriously shutdown a while ago. I was actually really sad when I found out because it was on of my favorite craft shop despite the lack of service.

the entrance

Toko Victory is opened a few stores away from Toko Petra, right in front of Kantor Pos Alun-Alun Bandung, it's really easy to find, it's near Alun-Alun Bandung and Pasar Baru, and in front of Kantor Pos Alun-Alun.





This store is like a new and improved version of Toko Petra, and it doesn't only sell craft stuffs, but at the second floor they sell home decor stuffs and bags, accessories too. The place is clean, neat and the service is waaay better than any old craft shop.

Second Floor

Place : 4/5
Staff : 4/5
Price : 4/5

Craft Crawl : TOKO MAJU

Craft crawl is a segment for craft places aka craft shops and markets that I visit and review. As you know, online shops maybe have everything, but nothing beats real shopping! All the places I'm gonna review is mainly in Indonesia. I hope you like this segment!

For the first is Toko Maju in Pasar Mayestik, South Jakarta. The shop is pretty easy to find, it's not in the main building, but outside. On the first floor, it has garments, ribbons, yarns, buttons (most famous for), tools, threads, feathers, beads, and everything you can think of basically. This place literally has everything. Toko Maju has been one of my favorite place to shop, and I highly recommend this place.
The second floor has lace! Lots of laces that you can imagine, like literally. Sorry I forgot to take a pic tho.






































One interesting fact about this place is almost every time whenever I come to this place there is tourists. This place is kinda magical tho. They arrange everything by color. The only downside of this place is it's really narrow, and you will bump to another person when it's crowded. The second floor has no windows or some sort and it's really stuffy and hot so make sure you choose quick. And if you are a first timer, you are going to be a bit confused by the system, a staff will follow your orders, but make sure to remember the staff face because they don't use uniforms or tags the last time I went there.

Place : 2.5/5
Staff : 3.5/5
Price : 3.5/5